Mathew Porter Web Design & Development Blog

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Magento, SEO

Magento robots.txt File

Magento is a very popular e-commerce platform, increasing in popularity for online retailers to develop their retail stores on. It has some great SEO features available, such as a sitemap.xml generator and canonical URL meta tag generation. This is great, but referencing your sitemap to tell search engine robots its location is something you need to manually do by creating […]

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Conversion Optimisation
Conversion Optimisation, Ecommerce

5 Tips to Improve Ecommerce Conversion Rate

With any Ecommerce website the primary function is to convert as much of its buying traffic into sales. Many web developers and designers focus purely on functionality and the look of an Ecommerce site but lose focus of the primary function which is to make as many sales as possible. There are lots of desperate areas within an Ecommerce site […]

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Magento, SEO

Magento Canonical Meta Tag on CMS Pages

Magento is a powerful ecommerce platform that has a built in CMS for creating structural, static pages. If enabled in your sites configuration, canonical meta tags can be automatically generated which is great, however for static CMS pages they are not. This means that if you are serious about your SEO, you need to manually add these to your CMS […]

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Upgrades, Windows

MSI U135DX Netbook Ram Upgrade

The MSI U135DX Netbook has a single core Intel Atom processor and 1GB of ram pre-installed. Although the Netbook has no problems with general use, the OS that is installed is Windows 7 Basic and could do with some more grunt for smoother operation. This is a more advance procedure and there are a few things to be aware of. […]

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Android, Windows

How to Install Android Apps on Acer Aspire One D255

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One D255 Windows 7 Netbook which is a nice Dual Core machine. The reasons for my purchase were the Dual Core Intel Atom processor and the fast DDR3 ram to keep things speedy. The main selling point was the dual operating system that is preloaded on the Netbook. The ability to boot to Android […]

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